The meaning of ELEVENTH is being number 11 in a countable series. How to use eleventh in a sentence.
Today is the eleventh of June. An eleventh is one of eleven equal parts of something. If they were full-time consultants on an eleven-elevenths contract they would not be allowed, nor would they want, to practise private medicine in hospital.
An eleventh is one of eleven equal parts of something. Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers
Noun eleventh (plural elevenths) The person or thing in the eleventh position. One of eleven equal parts of a whole. (music) The note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord.
The correct form is 11th, not 11st. This rule applies because ordinal numbers in English always end with the last two letters of the word written out fully. For example, “first” ends in “st,” “second” ends in “nd,” “third” ends in “rd,” and “ fourth ” ends in “th.”
In music or music theory an eleventh is the note eleven scale degrees from the root of a chord and also the interval between the root and the eleventh. The interval can be also described as a compound fourth, spanning an octave plus a fourth.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025 e lev enth (i lev′ ənth), adj. next after the tenth; being the ordinal number for 11. being one of 11 equal parts. n. an eleventh part, esp. of one (1⁄11). the eleventh member of a series.
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